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api-sdk-design from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-sdk-design@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/apis/api-sdk-design/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,763 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Design SDKs that feel idiomatic per language, handle auth and resilience, and version cleanly. Use when building an official client library for your API.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# API SDK design An SDK is the experience most developers have of your API; a good one makes integration a pleasure and a bad one sends them to a competitor. It must feel native in each target language, handle the hard parts (auth, retries, pagination) invisibly, and evolve without breaking the apps built on it. ## Method 1. **Feel idiomatic in each language.** An SDK should read like code written for that language: Pythonic in Python, idiomatic Go in Go (see kotlin-idioms, go-project-layout for what "idiomatic" means per language), naming and patterns matching the ecosystem's conventions. A thin transliteration of one language's SDK into another (Java-style getters in Python) reads as foreign and fights the user's instincts. 2. **Handle auth and resilience so users do not.** Token management and refresh (see oauth-flows), retries with backoff, timeouts, connection pooling, and rate-limit respect built in with sensible defaults (see api-client-design: the SDK is the definitive client): the user configures credentials and gets a robust integration. Making users implement resilience themselves guarantees most integrations do it badly. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-sdk-design@sha256:acee5ce242e75f97The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 21, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,763 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.412065e | 2026-07-21 | 412065e | 3,764 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nmitplefmhmjuij7 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/api-sdk-design GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/acee5ce242e75f97cddc13403b53bacc1ea2a5b2bc2ce9b0859b7ed61dc546e6
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